@Mikhael Manafort Montrose If you want to learn about the Catholic Faith study the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
In a nutshell, to be saved one must repent of one’s sins, turn away from sin, believe in the gospel and be baptized. Those who knowingly reject the faith are rejecting Christ and His Church, putting themselves outside the Church. Obviously those who do not know that the Catholic faith is the true faith cannot knowingly reject it, thus they will be judged by what they know; God’s laws are written on everyone’s heart.
Meeting the people where they are is what Christ did with the woman at the well.
That there are wolves and modernists in the Church and the Vatican, and corrupt people seeking power in the Church is true.
The reality is that there were, are, and always will be liars, hypocrites, adulterers, thieves, murderers, perverts, traitors and all sort of scoundrels among both the laity and the clergy, beginning with Judas Iscariot who was a liar, a thief, a hypocrite and a traitor, even though Judas was personally chosen by Christ. Christ Himself spoke about how there will always be weeds among the wheat, but among the wicked there will always be the saintly and those striving for true holiness.
One should not confuse religiousness with holiness. This is a big problem in the Church today. The Pharisees were very religious, they fasted, gave alms and talked about a God all day, yet God himself called them whitewashed sepulchers. In other words, religiosity without conversion of heart always becomes hypocrisy, something ] pope Francis is always warning against.
Catholics on the internet should spend their time Evangelizing rather that pointing out all the scandals and attacking the pope. We see the same thing in the gospels, how people who thought themselves close to God and extremely religious were attacking Christ.
As for the Pachamama saga, one need only watch the event in context. The claim that the natives were bowing down and worshipping the “Pachamama idol” is based on an edited video snippet showing them bowing down to the little wooden statue. In reality, they were giving thanks to God as our Father and thanking Him for Creation when they bowed down. What most people saw was an edited clip. Furthermore, the event was in the context of the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi where in the ceremony they sang St. Francis’ Canticle of the Sun, where St. Francis gives thanks to God for “Brother Sun” “Sister Moon” and “Mother Earth”. those are the words of St. Francis of Assisi.
The problem is that people were too lazy to watch the entire event, and put their faith in the Internet and all the talking heads who see everything through smoke-colored glasses. Since they obviously did not understand the Spanish, Portuguese and Italian that was spoken at the ceremony, they based their conclusions on what they saw edited. Once again, the gossip and the false news narrative drowned out the truth, and people were reacting and taking sides on the false narratives. Here is that ceremony in context if you want to watch the whole thing. The wooden statue was part of a display, along with a parrot, canoes and fishing nets and other items representing Amazonian regions. In the end you will see these same people planting trees giving thanks to God Our Father our Creator, and not “installing demons” or worshipping pagan idols as you may have heard on the Internet. Here is the video:
youtu.be/wPK7RpoUzPk